In this study, we investigated the temperature gradient effect on the polymer dynamics in a flow field. To simplify our analysis, we adopted a two-bead harmonic dumbbell model, and found that there were significant effects on the polymer migration not only due to the nonhomogeneity of the flow field, but also due to the temperature difference.
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